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Butch Patrick, who played the kid vampire on the 1960s show "The Munsters," is in a New Jersey drug and alcohol rehab facility, his agent confirmed to The Associated Press.

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The 57-year-old actor is there "to deal with a lifetime problem of substance abuse," said his agent Jodi Ritzen.

Patrick moved to the Philadelphia area earlier this year after being contacted by a West Chester woman named Donna McCall, a former Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader who had a crush on Patrick from her childhood.

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In May, the two arranged to meet for the first time at a vampire convention, "Dracula Con II," in Philadelphia.